Potential Manipulation

Potential Manipulation
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Once Upon a Time) was able to use a spell to remove an unborn Emma's potential for darkness and put it into Maleficent's unborn daughter Lily, leaving Emma's fate forever set on the light.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate potential.

The ability to manipulate potential. Variation of Probability Manipulation.

Also Called

• Potentiality Manipulation

Capabilities

The user can manipulate the potential, the capacity to become or develop into something in the future, in themselves, others and/or objects. This can range from controlling one's skills, abilities and personal preferences to the range of options they are given in life, ultimately controlling the kind of person they eventually become.

Applications

• Personal Potential
• Potential Creation
  • Meta Ability Creation
• Potential Energy Manipulation
  • Potential Enhancement/Reduction
    • Capability Suppression
    • Peak/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Potential
• Potential Realization
  • Power Apex Inducement
    • Ability Transcendence
• Potential Replication
  • Power Mimicry Potential
• Usurp Potential

Variations

• Potential Force Manipulation - Combination with Object Manipulation
• Potential Magic
• Potentiality Lordship - Ultimate version

Associations

• Object Manipulation - The potential state (speed, power, etc.,,,),
• Possibility Manipulation

Limitations

• May be useless without any kind of foresight.
• May only be able to manipulate their own potential.
• While the user may limit the options of others, the user has no outright control on what options that person decides. 
• If the user's opponent's potential is limitless, then any changes made would be insignificant, as their possibilities are endless.

Known Users

Also See: The Power Of Potential.

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Once Upon a Time)
• Tsurubami Senri (Len'en Project)
• Old Kai (Dragonball Z)